Valentine Cards

Today is valentines day and luckily, all the kids finished all their cards.

Parker made his cards completely on his own and started about two weeks ago. In fact, he had two different designs going for a while, but decided on one of them and started over to make them all the same. His final version was a tiny cut out heart (like the size of a dollar coin with an individual saying on it specific to the kid. So, one said, "I love you Joey!" while another say, "Hooray for Safia!" On one, for Silwan, a cute little girl who always says Hi Parker's Mom!, he wrote, "I wish that the flowers were blooming hearts." Seriously.

I insisted the girls made their own threatening them that if they didn't, they would get none from the other kids (not sure I would have followed through on that, but I know I would not have made them for them or bought them).

So I wrote a list of the kids' names and taped it to the wall in front of their desks. Then I gave them a small red piece of construction paper folded and told them to have at it. Some of them are quite good with drawings of the kids or flowers or whatever. And some are quite lame with some scribble scrabble on it. They did write everyone's names down, but since they still don't quite have the idea of writing left to right, the names are all scrambled. It's gonna take me forever to figured out who is who.